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Page last updated at 15:29 GMT, Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Queens Park in Bolton
How America's war changed the North West
Discover why the American Civil War led to the building of parks, roads and canals all over Greater Manchester.

The statue of Alcock and Brown at Heathrow Airport Stretford's pioneering aviator
90 years ago, Mancunian pilot Sir John Alcock became the first to fly a plane across the Atlantic non-stop.

MAG field worker holding an anti-personnel mine MAG: Manchester's best kept secret
Celebrating 20 years of ridding the world of anti-personnel mines from its offices in Manchester.


MORE HISTORY
Adela: suffragette, communist, fascist?
Ewan MacColl: theatre legend
Uttley's radical youth revealed
Rutherford: splitting the atom
City's aviation history at an end
Rochdale's Reichstag?

Darwin whale's tooth in wardrobe
Dale's musical heritage
Postcards were Edwardian 'texts'
Digging up Manchester's 'Hell'
Macabre fame of Hannah Beswick
The world's first inter-city railway

HISTORY ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
Manchester Museum
Imperial War Museum North
John Rylands University Library
Museum of Science & Industry
Salford Museum & Art Gallery
Chetham's Library
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